Monday, November 28, 2016

On Facebook people are posting hysterical admonishments that we must "stop Trump from being inaugurated!". As if by posting memes and signing petitions it will make one iota of difference. One may as well pray to stop it, for all the good that will do.

The reality is he's not going to be stopped. He was duly elected. And if by some ridiculously remote chance the electoral college electors do not cast their votes for him, more than likely Pence would end up in the Oval Office. No improvement there.

Wednesday, November 9, 2016

The fools have had their say, they have anointed their champion; and now the world will pay the price. I'm sorry, World. Forgive us. They know not what they do.

And to those who would congratulate the winners, who seek to reconcile, and who use Jefferson's quote as a means of assuring their under educated-right wing-Jesus loving-gun totin'- racist-angry white brethren of no hard feelings I say FUCK THAT!

I wonder how magnanimous Thomas Jefferson would have been if he was
Jewish, lived In 1930's Germany, and his "friend" endorsed the "final
solution". Or if he was Black, and his white "friend" joined the KKK. Or
if he was of Japanese descent in 1942 USA, and his "friend" endorsed
internment for Japanese-Americans.

No... it's one thing to
disagree on the size of a budget, or foreign affairs, or the running of a
pipeline, et al... But it's a whole 'nuther thing to embrace
someone who holds in contempt human rights, human dignity, and the
sanctity of the freedoms this nation was founded upon. I'll have none of
it. And none of them.

Sunday, November 6, 2016

Wednesday, October 5, 2016

According to the Religion News Service, Jewish voters favor Clinton over Trump by a wide margin. Here's the key extract:"... 61 percent of Jewish adults said Clinton and 19 percent picked GOP nominee Trump in the American Jewish Committee survey." Whole story here.All well and good. But it begs the question: What exactly do the remaining 19% of Jewish voters see in a Trump presidency? According to the article, some are annoyed by the nuclear deal the US and our allies made with Iran, but can that really account for almost one in five Jews preferring the obscenity, xenophobia, and fascist like concepts Trump has expressed as his platform?

Having come from a Jewish family, one that lost relatives in the Holocaust, the similarity between Trump's programs ...one might say "solutions" ... to our national ills is so blatantly fascist that it makes one blanch, or should.

It includes singling out of minorities, Mexicans, Muslims and Blacks. According to Trump he'd reinstate water boarding ("enhanced interrogation" is the nice term), profiling, and "stop and frisk" (which has been declared unconstitutional). How one can hear that, read that, and not think: "I vant to see your papers mein herr!" baffles me.

Oh but of course, anyone who is or looks black or Muslim or Mexican has to be up to something. His declaration that Muslims know more than they tell, that we must treat Muslim "neighborhoods" differently; that every illegal Mexican is a rapist or criminal (after all "someone is doing all the raping!") and must be rounded up; that Blacks are their own worst enemy and are the highest crime producing people in the nation...all of it speaks of demonization, of scapegoating that smacks of totalitarianism.

How does an educated Jew who knows anything about the Holocaust accept the singling out of minorities today, any more than they would have accept the singling out of Gypsies, Jews, the physically handicapped, the Trade Unionists, the Socialists in Germany and then across Europe?

Can it truly be "Well, I'm not a Black, or Mexican or Muslim, so what do I care?." Can 75 years of time have really blunted the horror that such "special treatment" and "solutions" delivered? Can they really embrace the"It can't happen here."fallacy? Can those 19% of Jews be so callous or so blind or so hateful that they'll readily wear the same emblem that their ancestors' persecutors wore in the last century, just invisibly?

No explanation or commitment to other national issues could justify this obscenity among people who shouldn't have to think twice about it. 1 in 5 Jews will vote for Trump!!?? It's enough to make me ashamed of my Jewish roots.

Thursday, September 29, 2016

He's my childhood friend. Fifty-five years we've known each other - caroused, hunted, camped, fished, and almost died canoeing and driving while under various influences. I love him like a brother.

But, alas, he has never quite shaken off the "Guns and taxes is all I give a shit about, and fuck them welfare niggers, ragheads and queers who hate America!" mentality. A mentality that I must confess I once shared, a long time ago in another life. I oft received obscene and racist mass email mailings replete with gross cartoons or photograph meme's from him, evidently part of the stuff he regularly receives from his similarly racist and right wing New York friends. Happily he respected my request to be removed from that distribution.

Today I received this email from him:"Pal the next president will be appointing at least one probably 2
supreme court justices.. I don’t think even you will like Clinton’s
choices.. You gotta vote Trump."My response:

"Thanks... but I don't vote for infantile, hateful, narcissistic,
sociopath, misogynistic, xenophobic, racist, fascistic, inveterate liar
reality stars for president. If I did it would be Charlie Sheen ... a
coke head who always thought he was "WINNING" too.

And I'll settle for any Supreme Court justice who isn't 'in the mold of' Scalia
or Thomas.

No... I'll stick with the hideously elitist phony woman with
international experience and a modicum of mental stability who doesn't
fuck her own daughter. But..,I do appreciate your advice...as always."I don't expect a reply. I hope there isn't one since I have exactly no interest in engaging in debate on this. I'll always love him, I'll always be there for him ...but I mourn the passing of time that has left him so many years behind the evolutionary progress of civility and reasoned thought.

Meanwhile, Trump demands that non-Christians identify themselves during a rally, and invites the attendees to vote on whether they should be allowed to stay. Just think about that ... the implications on a broader scale. That any thinking person can't see what he is and be repelled speaks tothe spiral into fascism with which our nation is flirting. Itdisgusts and horrifies me. Whole story here

Tuesday, September 13, 2016

In case you didn't hear, the Catholic Church's commission and advisory board to the pope on ending clergy sexual abuse of children has made a major stride in fixing the problem that has plagued this cabal of sex perverts and hypocrites for centuries. The whole story here.This intensive plan that will no doubt flush the child molesting priests and bishops out of their ranks once and for all is pretty much summarized in this one sentence: "Following a week of meetings in Rome, the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors announced several new initiatives, including a training program for bishops and a day of prayer for victims of sex abuse."Hey, don't scoff. At least it's better than the all too telling quote by Bishop Robert Cunningham last year as shown under his photo above.

Bishop Robert Cunningham

Bishop Robert Cunningham

Bishop Robert Cunningham

Yup... it's been a long time coming, but there it is: training and prayer. Bam! Why didn't I think of that? I'm sure this will come as a welcome sea change to the tens of thousands of victims left in wake of the deaf, dumb, blind, sick, and utterly ludicrous Catholic Church. I for one am glad THAT's over.

I drink to that! Now you can too.

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DROMEDARY HUMP, The Atheist Camel,is the alter-ego of BART CENTRE, a lifelong freethinker, atheist activist and the author of "The Atheist Camel
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The perfect gift for the boy in your priest's life.

The consummation of the Prophet's marriage to his new bride

The Prophet Muhammed

Is it any wonder why he couldn't get adult women and had to settle for children?

Fine Religious Art: Jesus endorses the Constitution of the United States

Well, that settles that!. Jesus was evidently a Founding Father and US citizen. OK, maybe an alien resident. Of course, since Jesus was illiterate he may as well be endorsing the menu at Wendy's.

Maybe Mormon polygamy isn't so bad: Julianne Hough, Marie Osmond...

Oh, wait.... never mind.

Sign in a Hasidic neighborhood in New York

Translation: "If we see your leg we will beat you into a much shorter life span."

Billy is about to get a lesson on the meaning of "The Religion of Peace"

"Thank you for your drawing of the Prophet Muhammad, Billy... but now we have to kill you."

Islamic fun at the beach?

Nah! Just preparing a rape victim for stoning in the prescribed Muslim manner, This should curb her unruly sexual desires.

Christianity Explained in 115 Words

The belief that a walking dead Jewish deity who was his own father although he always existed, commits suicide by cop, although he didn't stay dead, in order to give himself permission not to send you to an eternal place of torture that he created for you, but instead to let you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh, drink his blood, and telepathically promise him you accept him as your master, so he can cleanse you of an evil force that is present in mankind because a rib-woman and a mud-man were convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree, which he knew they would do to begin with. -- Anon. _________________________ The whole thing would make Jesus die laughing, if he wasn't already dead, and assuming he ever existed.

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